A closer look
Your first wooden pickaxe is nothing more than a disposable tool designed to brainwash you into mining forever. The crafting funnel in Minecraft is a masterclass in behavioral design. You punch a tree to get wood, only to immediately throw that wooden pickaxe away the second you mine three blocks of stone. This rapid, disposable progression teaches the brain that every material is merely a stepping stone to a better one. By the time you find iron, your brain is already deeply conditioned to obsessively strip-mine the earth for diamonds.
